Art Treatments & Subjects

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The Book of the Horse: Horses in Art

Hyland Angus, Caroline Roberts

Art & Architecture; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes)

Paperback

Horses have been the inspiration for hundreds of works of art over the centuries. This book celebrates the horse in all its... [more]

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Pavement Chalk Artist: The Three-Dimensional Drawings of Julian Beever

Julian Beever

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: from c 1960; Graffiti & street art; Individual artists, art monographs

Paperback

Expanded third edition celebrating the extraordinary three-dimensional anamorphic chalk paintings of the feted British street... [more]

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The Pebbles on the Beach

Clarence Ellis

Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Mathematics & Sciences; Wildlife: general interest; Rocks, minerals & fossils; Travel & holiday guides; Nature, the natural world (Children's&YA)

Paperback

Understanding the humble pebble makes a trip to the beach, lake-side or river bank simply that little bit more fascinating.<br... [more]

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Leonardo da Vinci: A life in drawing

Martin Clayton

Art & Architecture; Individual artists, art monographs

Hardback

Drawing was Leonardo da Vinci's primary artistic activity. He used drawing to think, to explore the world around him and to... [more]

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Bruegel: The Master

Manfred Sellink, Ron Spronk

Art & Architecture; Individual artists, art monographs

Hardback

A major monograph on the artist widely regarded as the 16th century's greatest Netherlandish painter, published to mark the... [more]

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Marianne North: The Kew Collection

RBG Kew

Art & Architecture; Botanical art; The natural world, country life & pets

Hardback

Marianne North was a remarkable Victorian traveller and painter, who traversed the globe recording the world's flora with... [more]

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The Hermitage Cats

Art & Architecture; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes)

Paperback

Lives of cats and men intertwined long ago. People worshiped cats like gods, full of superstition they were afraid of luminous... [more]

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Love and Desire: Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces from the Tate

National Gallery of Australia

Art & Architecture; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

Hardback

Combining rebellion, beauty, scientific precision and imaginative grandeur, the Pre-Raphaelites constitute Britain's first... [more]

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Mr Guilfoyle's Shakespearian Botany

Edmee Cudmore, Diana Hill

Botanical art; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Mathematics & Sciences; Botany & plant sciences

Paperback

William Guilfoyle, credited as the architect of Melbourne's Royal Botanic gardens, was an eminent landscape designer, botanist... [more]

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The Sistine Chapel

Antonio Paolucci

Art & Architecture; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

Paperback

Presenting, for the first time, the new photographs of one of the most visited place in the world. [more]

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Tony Tuckson

Paula Dredge, David Marr, Michael Mel

Art & Architecture; Individual artists, art monographs

Hardback

Surveys Tony Tuckson through the many and varied prisms that reveal his critical role in and to art in Australia.<br /><br... [more]

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Botanical Art: From Renaissance Herbaria to the 19th Century

Andrea Accorsi, Giuseppe Brillante, Elena Percivaldi

Art & Architecture; Botanical art

Hardback

Plants and flowers have always captured man's imagination, with their delicate harmonies and the perfection of their symmetrical... [more]

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Bruegel in Detail: The Portable Edition

Manfred Sellink

Art & Architecture; Individual artists, art monographs

Hardback

A compact, affordable, portable edition of the perfect companion for the Bruegel year of 2019: an introduction to the famous... [more]

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Postcards from Africa: Photographers of the Colonial Era

Christraud M. Geary

Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Photographs: collections; History

Hardback

A close look at photographic postcards made in Africa in the first decades of the twentieth century reveals surprising images... [more]

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Walter Chandoha: The Cat Photographer

Walter Chandoha

Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Individual photographers; Photographs: collections; Cats as pets

Hardback

Suitable for younger audiences, this book offers insight into the career of a successful commercial photographer Walter Chandoha... [more]

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Treasures of Westminster Abbey

Tony Trowles

Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Religious buildings; Museums & museology; History

Hardback

New edition of this exploration of one of Brtiain's greatest buildings. [more]

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The Mirror of Magic: A History of Magic in the Western World

Kurt Seligmann

Small-scale, secular & domestic scenes in art; Conjuring & magic; Occult studies

Hardback

A collector's edition of the classic, illustrated, and comprehensive history of magic and the occult. [more]

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The Sistine Chapel: Paradise in Rome

Ulrich Pfisterer, David Dollenmayer

Art & Architecture; Renaissance art; Religious subjects depicted in art; Religious buildings; Ancient history: to c 500 CE

Paperback

This scholarly but concise and accessible account of the decoration of the Sistine Chapel examines the history and explains... [more]

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Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer

Sorcha Ni Fhlainn

Individual artists, art monographs; Film, TV & Radio; Individual film directors, film-makers; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Paperback

A necessary and timely study of Barker's influence in dark fantasy, gothic and horror studies. The book features twelve groundbreaking... [more]

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Correspondence: Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso

History of Art & Design Styles; Individual artists, art monographs; Biography; Biography: arts & entertainment; Biography: literary

Paperback

Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. Few can be said to have had as broad an impact on European art in the twentieth century... [more]

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Gainsborough: A Portrait

James Hamilton

Individual artists, art monographs; Biography; Biography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

Frank, lucid and modern, this is a fresh portrait of Thomas Gainsborough, the most sensuous artist of the eighteenth century.... [more]

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Rare & Wonderful: Treasures from Oxford University Museum of Natural History...

Kate Diston, Zoe Simmons

Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Mathematics & Sciences; The natural world, country life & pets; Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides

Hardback

This lavishly illustrated book features highlights from the collections ranging from the iconic Dodo and the giant tuna to... [more]

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The Empire of the Eagle: An Illustrated Natural History

Mike Unwin, David Tipling

Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Photographs: collections; Mathematics & Sciences; Birds (ornithology); Wildlife: birds & birdwatching

Hardback

A lavishly illustrated celebration of each of the world's sixty-eight currently recognized eagle species in all their magnificence... [more]

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Le Corbusier: Drawing as Process

Daniele Pauly

Art & Architecture; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Drawing & drawings; Art techniques & principles; Individual architects & architectural firms

Hardback

Each day of my life has been dedicated in part to drawing. I have never stopped drawing and painting, seeking, where I could... [more]

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Art of China: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Huang Xiaofeng, Diandian Li, John E. Vollmer

Art & Architecture; Oriental art; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

Hardback

This sumptuous presentation of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's wide-ranging collection of Chinese art features one hundred... [more]